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clo_againI haven't even been *watching* Moulin Rouge. But maybe I should, I haven't seen it for all of oh, three weeks now? Scandalous. ^__~
Chosing which new icons to upload is torture. I'm currently struggling with whether to spend pocket money on Paid LJ and one DVD or no Paid LJ and two DVDs. Leaning towards one DVD and Paid LJ but then I have to chose which DVD. One day my head will explode and I'll be there going "This is your fault for giving me so much choice you fukorz!" Who "you" are I'm not entirely sure but I'm fairly sure there's someone out there I can blame. ^__^
I have stuff to scan in and send for my parents since they're both useless and have a fear of the scanner. -_- If I ever get that technologically inadequate when I'm old, shoot me. Please.
I haven't managed to fic today. -_- Bad Clo. I will tonight.
Still no Edward Scissorhands DVD. Hasn't even been dispatched yet. Gggrr. I want it this week though or Amazon will be getting a mightily pissed off email.
I think I'll get Benny and Joon off Play.com. They don't charge for delivery and at least they dispatch them in less than a bloody month. -_-
Love, peace and jelly babies,
Clo
EDIT: I had to respond to this: http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/181602.html#cutid1
I've often considered reading Anne Rice but never had the time. Now I don't think I'll bother. It has however made me think of the way *I* write.
I don't tend to post my fic to many places. *Very* occasionally to FF.net since it was the first place I posted, though I've been avoiding it recently and of course to Planet Helen which is restricted and not many people read it. There's my other community with stuff on, but MSN makes it such a pain to open the fics not many people really bother to read any of them I think. So that cuts it down to a really small amount of people who read and give feedback on my stuff. Though I'm considering changing that with this latest pirates fic and maybe it'll get posted to Pirategasm or The Blacksmith's Pirate if the third part ever starts behaving and people on PH like it. But the thing is, I've drafted this latest fic incredibly. I have about three or four drafts hanging around my room covered in notes. Then I'll update the computer versions, print it out and start all over again, hopefully with less notes the second or third times round. I do the same for Myth and Game, though to a lesser extent for stuff like LotV and Heaven and Hell. I don't have a beta-reader simply because I've never really posted to anywhere with a bigger audience than 40, not counting ff.net. Perhaps I should start looking. Then again people on PH act as sort of betas. Maybe I should bribe one of them to do it. Hmm.
Anyway, the point of this long and rambling edit is that Anne Rice's self-centered views have finally made me think seriously about getting a beta if I ever plan to post to anywhere but PH. Perhaps I can get someone from PH to do it. I don't mind them telling me what's wrong - they know what they're talking about. ^__^
But this confused me: "There are no drafts. There is intensive editing."
Surely if you write something.... then edit it.... the original was draft one and you end up with draft 2... right? So how can there be no drafts? I love my drafts. My life would be over without drafts. S'insanity I tell you. No author should get that arrogant. Grrr.
Off to fic and scan things. Hope those last few paragraphs made some semblence of sense.
Clo
Chosing which new icons to upload is torture. I'm currently struggling with whether to spend pocket money on Paid LJ and one DVD or no Paid LJ and two DVDs. Leaning towards one DVD and Paid LJ but then I have to chose which DVD. One day my head will explode and I'll be there going "This is your fault for giving me so much choice you fukorz!" Who "you" are I'm not entirely sure but I'm fairly sure there's someone out there I can blame. ^__^
I have stuff to scan in and send for my parents since they're both useless and have a fear of the scanner. -_- If I ever get that technologically inadequate when I'm old, shoot me. Please.
I haven't managed to fic today. -_- Bad Clo. I will tonight.
Still no Edward Scissorhands DVD. Hasn't even been dispatched yet. Gggrr. I want it this week though or Amazon will be getting a mightily pissed off email.
I think I'll get Benny and Joon off Play.com. They don't charge for delivery and at least they dispatch them in less than a bloody month. -_-
Love, peace and jelly babies,
Clo
EDIT: I had to respond to this: http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/181602.html#cutid1
I've often considered reading Anne Rice but never had the time. Now I don't think I'll bother. It has however made me think of the way *I* write.
I don't tend to post my fic to many places. *Very* occasionally to FF.net since it was the first place I posted, though I've been avoiding it recently and of course to Planet Helen which is restricted and not many people read it. There's my other community with stuff on, but MSN makes it such a pain to open the fics not many people really bother to read any of them I think. So that cuts it down to a really small amount of people who read and give feedback on my stuff. Though I'm considering changing that with this latest pirates fic and maybe it'll get posted to Pirategasm or The Blacksmith's Pirate if the third part ever starts behaving and people on PH like it. But the thing is, I've drafted this latest fic incredibly. I have about three or four drafts hanging around my room covered in notes. Then I'll update the computer versions, print it out and start all over again, hopefully with less notes the second or third times round. I do the same for Myth and Game, though to a lesser extent for stuff like LotV and Heaven and Hell. I don't have a beta-reader simply because I've never really posted to anywhere with a bigger audience than 40, not counting ff.net. Perhaps I should start looking. Then again people on PH act as sort of betas. Maybe I should bribe one of them to do it. Hmm.
Anyway, the point of this long and rambling edit is that Anne Rice's self-centered views have finally made me think seriously about getting a beta if I ever plan to post to anywhere but PH. Perhaps I can get someone from PH to do it. I don't mind them telling me what's wrong - they know what they're talking about. ^__^
But this confused me: "There are no drafts. There is intensive editing."
Surely if you write something.... then edit it.... the original was draft one and you end up with draft 2... right? So how can there be no drafts? I love my drafts. My life would be over without drafts. S'insanity I tell you. No author should get that arrogant. Grrr.
Off to fic and scan things. Hope those last few paragraphs made some semblence of sense.
Clo
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Anne Rice & beta's
Date: 2003-09-29 12:23 pm (UTC)As for the beta thing, you do a really good job of reading and re-reading your fics, but find someone just to catch the goof ups. No matter how many times you edit your own work, you'll still miss things. Trust me, this I know :)
Re: Anne Rice & beta's
Date: 2003-09-30 09:42 am (UTC)*giggles* Oh I have plenty of goof-ups trust me. I still get people now reading fics I wrote months ago going... "But now this person is by the door when a minute ago you said they were over *here*..." and I'm like.... -_- "D'oh!" Plus I love to mangle words - teh, yuo, gnoe..... I blame the keyboard. ^__~
Editing. Gah. I've done so much of it lately I think my head is about to explode.
Re: Anne Rice & beta's
Date: 2003-10-02 10:33 am (UTC)Honestly, it doesn't matter how many times I have my work beta'd... I always find mistakes when I read over it later. A few mistakes isn't bad and typing goof ups are silly :)
Re: Anne Rice & beta's
Date: 2003-10-03 12:07 pm (UTC)Me too. ^___^
Hehe true, it's impossible to get rid of all the mistakes. I won't stress about them. ^__^
Re: Anne Rice & beta's
Date: 2003-10-03 07:21 pm (UTC):D Stressing is bad for you anyhow. Besides, I've seen some people who would swear their writing is perfect who have totally crazy mistakes in them.
Re: Anne Rice & beta's
Date: 2003-10-04 07:15 am (UTC)Pfft, people who swear their writing is perfect annoy me. I'm more likely to avoid them because of it than read their stuff. I definitely know I'm not perfect, especially because there's all this other incredible writing around to remind me off it. *grins* One day I'll be that good. Really.
Yep, no more stress. ^___^
Re: Anne Rice & beta's
Date: 2003-10-04 09:24 am (UTC)I'm with you... Eventually, I will get to the point where I swear I don't need any help with my writing... Then I'll probably stop writing because I'll have become one of those annoying obnoxious people who think their writing is perfect *g*
That's a good thing :D